Shawl carrier



Sepfi. 13, 1927.

SHAWL CARRIER Filed Nov. 5, 1925 v [NVENTO R; V JolmlilSaa/y A TTORNEY$ Patented Sept. 13, 1927.

UNITED: STATES 1,642,562 PATENT" OFFICE.

JOHN R. SCOHY, OF OKMULGEE', OKLAHOMA, ASSIGNOR T BAKER BROTHERS GLASS COMPANY, OF OKMULGEE, OKLAHOMA, A CORPORATION OF OKLAHOMA.

SHAWL CARRIER.

Application filed November I ing room tothe flatteningroom and theob- Ject of my invention-1s to, prov de a device by means of which such segments may be conveniently transported fromv the blowing room to the flattening room.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Fig. 1 is a side elevation. of a carrier embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a

{ horizontal section and Fig. 3 a transverse section.

In the drawings indicates a portable carrier-frame. most conveniently supported by trolleys 11 uponan overhead track 12 which extends from the'blow room to theflattening room. 1

Frame 10 1s provided with longitudinal bottom bars 14 and 1.5, 15, the bars 15 flanking bar 14 and being arranged at a slightly lower level thanv bar 14, for a purpose which will appear.

Depending from the upper bar of frame 10 is a series of spacer fingers 16 conveniently about four or five inches wide and of a length such that their lower unsupported ends are not much lower than the shoulders of the operators who will use the apparatus.

Supported by'bar 14 is a series of short stubs 17 in number and arrangement corresponding with fingers 16, said stubs and fingers being rigidly secured in place and spaced apart a distance sufiicient to permit the insertion, therebetween, of the glass shawls 18.

The upper surfaces of bars 14 and 15 are padded, as indicated at 18, to avoid chipping of the lower ends of the glass shawls and these shawls, when placed in position'between the separators will stand in a slightly inclined position with their'upper ends, at the middle, lying against a finger 16, the inclination being assured by the slight elevation of bar 14 above bars 15.

In many installations the flattening room level is considerably below the blow room level and the carrier supporting track is therefore most conveniently inclined from one floor level to the other. I Under such conditions the heavily loaded carrier is difficult to control in its descent along the incline track.

5, 1925. Serial No. 66,980.

and in order to facilitate control by the operator, I hinge, at '20 on the rear end of car'- rier 10 near its lowest part, a foot platform 21 whichis suspended by a rod 22 from a bracket 23 between which and the upper end of rod 22 I place a spring 24. Hinged at 25 to the rear end of the foot platform 21 is a supplemental platform 26 which, atits free rear end, on its under surface is provided with a friction pad 27 adapted to drag along the floor Just before the downward incline is reached the operator swings section 26 of the foot platform downwardly so that it will drag upon the floor and, when the incline has been reached, stands upon the foot platform 2126 so that his weight operates as a brake drag during'the descent. On the return trip the operator folds section 26 upwardly upon section 21 so that it is out of the way of the feet ofthe operator ashe pushes the carrier back along the supporting Occasionally very short glassshawls are saved and in order to provide a support for such shawls, I arrange, at one. end of the carrier, one ortwo separators 16 which extend full length from top to bottom of the carrier. V r V In the normal loading of this carrier the operator grasps a glass shawl with his two hands upon opposite longitudinal edges of the shawl at about the middle, and then threads the shawl between two sets of separator fingers 1617 by a rolling motion, his forward arm passing freely beneath the attached lower ends of the finger 16.

If desired the shawls may be guarded against lateral displacement during transportation by side ropes 30 secured to a cross bar 31 at one end of the carriage and securable to a cross bar 32 at the other end of the carriage. These guard ropes are hardly'necessary however, because the reaction between the shawls and the floor bars 14 and 15 is such that the shawls are quite firmly seated in place.

I claim as my invention:

1. A carrier for glass shawls comprising a movable frame having a shawl supporting platform, said frame having a plurality of rigidly supported normally fixed depending spacer fingers spaced from each other a distance sufficient to permit the insertion of glass shawls therebetween, the lower ends of such fingers being sufficiently elevatedto permi l; the arms of an operator, in loading the. shawls, to pass readily below the same, and a corrlav'pouding series of spacer lingers near the platform and the upper ends of which fall short of the lower ends o f the depending fingers to leave free passage for the arms of an operator.

2. A carrier for glass shawls (,lllllplll-llilll' a movable frame having a shawl supporting plal'forn'i and adapted to he suspended and travel upon an overhead traclr, said frame having a ph'u'ality of rigidly supported normally fixed depending spacer lingers spaced from each othe' a distance su'llicicnlz to pea init the insertion of glass shawls therehl tween, the lower ends of such lingers heiug suiliciently elevated to permit the arms of an operator, in loading the shawls to pass rea h ily below the same, and a corres ioiuling series of spacer lingers near the lal'foriu and the upper ends of which fall short of the lower ends of the depending lingers to leave free passage for the arms of an operator.

3. A carrier for glass shawls comprising a i movable frame, said frame having a plurality of rigidly supported dependingspacer fingers spaced from each other a distance suflieient to permit the insertion of glass shawls therehetween, the lower ends of such fingers being sufiiciently elevated to permit. the arms of an operator, in loading the shawls, to pass readily below the same, said frame also comprising a shawl-supporting platform the longitudinal middle of which is higher than its sides so that shawls resting thereon will stand in a slightly inclined position.

4. A carrier for glass shawls comprising a movable frame adapted to be suspended and travel upon an overhead track, said frame having a plurality of rigidly supported depending spacer lingers spaced from each other a distance suiiieient to permit the in sertion of glass shawls therehetween, the lower ends of such lingers being sulliciently elevated to permit the arms of an operator, in loading the shawls, to pass readily below the same, said frame also comprising a sllawl-supporting plalifrom the longitudinal middle of which is higher than its sides so that shawls resting thereon will stand in a s ightly inclined position.

5. A carrier for glass shawls comprising a movable frame adapted to be suspended from and travel on an overhead track with its lower portion adjacent a floor, and a spring:- aupportel foot platform secured to and. trailing from said frame in such position that its rear end may he caused to drag along the iloor.

G. A carrier for glass shawls comprising a movable frame adapted to be suspended from and travel on an overhead track with its lower portion adjacent a floor, and a spring supported foot platform secured to and trailing from said frame in such position that its rear end may be caused to drag along the floor. said rear end being a section hinged at its forward end to said spring supported foot platform.

in witness whereof, I, JOHN R. SooI-IY have hereunto set my hand at ()kmulgee, Oklahoma, this th day of October, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty five.

JOHN R. SCOHY. 

